Combination-tool.



No. 789,103. PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

A. M. PARKER. COMBINATION TOOL.

-AIYLIOATION FILED MAR. 26, 1903.

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Patented. May 2, 1905.

PATENT EETcE.

ARTHUR MERTON PARKER, OF MEXICO, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7 89,103, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 26, 1903. Serial No. 149,683.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR MnRToN PAR- KER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mexico, in the county of J uniata and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combination-tools in which the stock or handle is constructed to form parts of the tools attached thereto; and the object of my improvement is to provide in an article of manufacture a combination can-opener with a corkscrew locking device, as part of akitchen-tool. I attain this object by the novel features of construction herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan of my improvement, showing a knife-sharpener, glass cutter and breaker, attached at one end of the stock, forming convenient auxiliary devices. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the opposite side of the structure shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the manner in which the convolutions of the corkscrew are utilized as a means for locking the can-opener blade upon the shank.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

The stock comprises the glass-cutter and sharpener, which form the handle 5 for the combination corkscrew and can-opener, and the shank 0, having the longitudinal groove (Z, and the perforating-point e. The canopener knife f, having the laterally-extending blade g, is mounted on the shank 0, preferably by means of its bent-over edges h h, and is adapted to slide along the said shank. The

corkscrew 2' is pivoted to the shank c and normally lies in the longitudinal groove cl, formed therein. The convolutions of the corkscrew, as shown in Fig. 2, press against the bottom sides of the groove and form spaces which act to retain the bent-over edges it /b of the knife f against longitudinal movement. It is then seen that for each convolution of the corkscrew a locking position for the canopener is formed.

To open cans, insert point e in top of can, adjust the knife f upon the shank c to a position that it may be locked by the corkscrew 1:, press the blade 9 through the tin, and turn until the opening is accomplished. To draw corks, turn the corkscrew at an angle to the stock and use in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a combination-tool, a handle carrying a shank provided with a longitudinal groove and a perforating point, a knife slidably mounted upon the shank, a corkscrew pivoted at one end of and lying in the groove and adapted to lock the knife in its several positions of adjustment.

2. In a combination-tool having a shank provided with a perforating-point, a knife slidably mounted upon the shank, a corkscrew pivoted on and lying upon the shank adapted to lock the knife in its several positions of adjustment.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR MERTON PARKER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. GILMORE, BLANOHE I. PARKER. 

